Delayed Comebacks

You have just left a heated argument or a stressful meeting. You are walking to your car, replaying the frustrating exchange in your head. Suddenly, twenty minutes too late, your brain delivers the absolute perfect, devastating comeback. The French coined a brilliant term for this maddening phenomenon: l'esprit de l'escalier, or "e;staircase wit."e;This delayed verbal agility is not a sign of poor...